The plywood covered aircraft also featured tricycle landing gear with a castering nose wheel.
Passengers prepared for an emergency landing and were instructed to brace as it was thought the nose wheel would fail.
The landing gear features suspension on all three wheels, with the main gear bungee suspended and the nose wheel suspended with rubber blocks.
Amongst other failures, this also degraded the wheel brakes, and the nose wheel steering would not function.
Everything on the aircraft was over-sized, the nose wheel was 1.5 meter in diameter and the four rear wheels were 2 meters in diameter.
The landing gear consists of suspended main gear, a nose wheel and a rudder-mounted rear skid.
The landing gear uses tube flexing for suspension and features a fixed nose wheel.
The aircraft has conventional nose wheel steering connected to the rudder pedals.
